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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mali si Duterte; China may pananagutan sa South China Sea arbitral award

By VERA Files | Jul 31, 2021 4:32 PM

Sa kanyang pang-anim at panghuling State of the Nation Address (SONA) noong Hulyo 26, sinabi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ang 2016 arbitral award, na nagpawalang bisa sa malawak na nine-dash-line claim ng China sa South China Sea, ay hindi nagbubuklod sa Beijing. Hindi ito totoo.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte is wrong; South China Sea arbitral award binds China, too

By VERA Files | Jul 31, 2021 3:43 PM

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed the 2016 arbitral award, which nullified China’s expansive nine-dash line claim over the South China Sea, does not bind Beijing.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo of Australian ship WRONGLY shown as ‘Chinese vessel in WPS’ dumping waste

By VERA Files | Jul 14, 2021 8:37 PM

Netizens continued to repost the misleading graphic even after GMA News issued a correction.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PH hindi ‘namili’ ng buong panel sa South China Sea arbitration case

By VERA Files | May 27, 2021 10:36 PM

Nag post ang People’s Television (PTV) News, ang media network na pinapatakbo ng gobyerno, ng quote card ni dating ambassador Rosario Manalo na may maling petsa, kung saan mali ang sinabi ng huli na Pilipinas ang “pumili” ng arbitration panel sa South China Sea maritime dispute sa China.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PH didn’t ‘handpick’ entire panel in South China Sea arbitration case

By VERA Files | May 27, 2021 6:32 PM

People’s Television (PTV) News, a state-run media network, posted a misdated quote card of former ambassador Rosario Manalo, in which the latter inaccurately claimed that the Philippines “handpicked” the arbitration panel in the South China Sea maritime dispute with China.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Filipino diplomat DID NOT call Carpio et al ‘China’s lapdog’

By VERA Files | May 13, 2021 2:31 PM

Rosario Manalo, Philippine expert to the UN’s CEDAW, has made no such claim.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Matapos igiit ang arbitral win sa UN, Duterte tinawag ngayon itong ‘isang piraso lamang ng papel’

By VERA Files | May 10, 2021 5:02 PM

Sa pag uulit-ulit ng kanyang paninindigan na iwasan ang “gulo” sa China, tinawag ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang makasaysayang panalo sa arbitration ng Pilipinas noong 2016 laban sa higante ng Asia sa pagtatalo ng South China Sea bilang “isang piraso lamang ng papel” na kanyang “itatapon sa basurahan,” sa isang televised address noong Mayo 5.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: After asserting arbitral win in UN, Duterte now calls it ‘just a piece of paper’

By VERA Files | May 10, 2021 4:29 PM

In reiterating his stance on avoiding “trouble” with China, President Rodrigo Duterte called the Philippines’ historic arbitral win in 2016 against the Asian giant on the South China Sea dispute as “just a [piece of] paper” that he would “throw into the wastebasket,” in a televised address on May 5.

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